The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-11

A good deal of curiosity is manifested to
know what the President will do with the
case of the colored man from Albany
whom he has twice appointed to be lte-
corder of Deeds, and whom the Senate has
twice rejected The official notification of
Mr.. Mathews rejection has not yet been
sent to the White House and of course,
the President will take M action in the
matter until lie is So informed. The com
mission issued TO Mr.. Mathews by the
President after the adjournment of the last
session OF Congress is operative until the
end of the present session unless the Pres
i,lent should nominate some one else to
succeed him. Therefore Mr.. Mathews
NAV continue on duty until the fourth of
March. ii the President desires lie can
then appoint him again, and issue COM
mission similar To that under which he
now serves which will be valid until the
end of the next session of Congress, pro-
yided he is neither confirmed or suppressed
ed. There is nothing to prevent the fr,s-
ident from keeping Mr.. Mathews in office
this way until the close of tie administra
ton if he SO desires, but whether it would
be policy for him to defy the Senate's OPP
position to such extent, is quite another
question.
Secretary Manning will be subjected to
some very severe criticism i'll the House OF
Representatives because Of his reply TO the
resolution of inquiry sent lin by the silver
men, but he will not he impeaehed, as
threatened, foi his party in the House
would not allow the matter to go that far
The Authors OF the resolution were much
nettled at the Secretary's attempt to show
them that they did not know what green
back was; that they did not know the diff
ference between Treasury note, Which is
now almost a thing of the past, and
rreenback which is known to the law as
a United States note. This allegation of
the shallow ness of their knowledge dis
pleased them, and they also consider MIR.
Manning censurabe for previous official
acts Consequently, at the Capitol, there
has been some consulting of books relating
to impeachment, what it means, to whom
it applies, the proper occasions FOR i'm
parchment, and how to do it.
The western men resent what they call
the arrogance Of the New Workers in as
snming that outside of the Empire State,
nobody knows anything about finances.
Said one of them, These Treasury officials
look upon the members of the House as
lot Of boobies He said he would take
occasion to remind them that the financial
system under which we are at present
working was originated and framed by
Secretary Chase, of Ohio, and that it was
under another Ohio man-Secretary Sher-
man--that specie payment was resumed.
These are the hardest weeks Of the
year for the President The measures
that are being sent to him by Congress de-
mand much careful attention, and the
drafts upon his time, politically and So
cially, are very pressing. The most prom
inent social event of the week at the White
House was the diplomatic dinner, at which
thirty friendly nations usually represented
here Were present.
With her customary good taste, Mrs.
Cleveland surmounted the difficulty which
presented itself in the W lie to be served to
the foreigners. Her temperance procliv-
tiles or the one hand, and the courtesy due
the guests of state on the OTHER, might have
seemed antagopistic to person of less
tact, but she reconcied the two claims up
on her by distinguishing between her ca
pacity as mistress Of the White House and
her character as an individual. In the
former she served the usual wines, and in
the latter she confined her own potations
to water
WESTON.